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Title: How to Listen to and Understand Opera
Author: The Great Courses
Narrator: Professor Robert Greenberg
Format: Original Recording
Length: 24 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-08-13
Publisher: The Great Courses
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 455 votes
Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music
Publisher's Summary:
To watch any opera lover listen to a favorite work, eyes clenched tight in concentration and passion, often betraying a tear, is to be almost envious. What must it be like, you might think, to love a piece of music so much?
And now one of music's most gifted teachers is offering you the opportunity to answer that very question, in a spellbinding series of 32 lectures that will introduce you to the transcendentally beautiful performing art that has enthralled audiences for more than 400 years.
As you meet the geniuses - including the likes of Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini - who have produced some of the landmark artistic achievements of the form, and listen to many of their most beautiful moments, you'll grasp how the addition of music can reveal truths beyond what mere spoken words can convey, and how opera's unique marriage of words and music makes the whole far greater than the sum of its parts.
Beginning with opera's origins in the early 17th century and continuing into the 20th, you'll trace the art's evolution and its ability to convey every shade of human emotion, whether sorrow or joy, drama or buffoonery. You'll understand how different types of voices enhance character. And you'll understand how the invention of the aria gave operatic composers a new power to make human emotions soar, adding to the impact of what continues to be one of the most beautiful musical forms ever devised.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
Members Reviews:
Professor Robert Greenberg does it again!
Lectures
1 Introduction and Words and Music, I
2 Introduction and Words and Music, II
3 A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, I
4 A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, II
5 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, I
6 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, II
7 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, III
8 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, IV
9 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, I
10 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, II
11 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, III
12 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, IV
13 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, I
14 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, II
15 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, III
16 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, IV
17 The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, I
18 The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, II
19 Verdi and Otello, I
20 Verdi and Otello, II
21 Verdi and Otello, III
22 Verdi and Otello, IV
23 French Opera, I
24 French Opera, II
25 German Opera Comes of Age
26 Richard Wagner and Tristan und Isolde, I
27 Richard Wagner and Tristan und Isolde, II
28 Late Romantic German OperaRichard Strauss and Salome
29 Russian Opera, I
30 Russian Opera, II
31 Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca, I
32 Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca, II
I love Professor Greenbergs lectures and when I saw this one available on Audible I had to try it.
